I frequently write that the world economy is, in physics terms, a dissipative structure that is powered by energy. It can grow for a time, but eventually it reaches limits of many kinds. Ultimately, it can be expected to stop growing and collapse.
It seems to me that the world economy is showing signs that it has reached a turning point. Economic growth stopped in 2020 and is having trouble restarting in 2021. Fossil fuel energy of all types (oil, coal and natural gas) is in short supply, relative to the world’s huge population. Ultimately, this inadequate energy supply can be expected to pull the world economy toward collapse.
The world economy doesn’t behave the way most people would expect. Standard modeling approaches miss the point that economies require adequate supplies of energy products of the right kinds, provided at the right times of day and year, if they are to keep from collapsing. Shortages are not necessarily marked by high prices; prices that are too low for producers will bring down the energy supply quickly. A collapse may occur due to inadequate demand; in fact, such a scenario is described in Revelation 18.
As strange as it may seem, we may be approaching what some of us would think of as end times, if our economy collapses for lack of cheap-to-produce energy supplies. In this post, I will try to explain what is happening.
[1] In some ways, the self-organizing economy is like a child’s building toy that, with the use of human energy, can be built up to higher and higher levels.
The economy is gradually built up by the addition of new customers, new businesses and new products. Governments play a role as well, adding new infrastructure, laws and taxes. Adequate wages for employees are important because, to a significant extent, employees are also consumers of goods and services made by the economy.
Adequate energy supplies of the right types are terribly important because every process used by the economy requires energy, even if the only energy used is electricity to light a light bulb or operate a computer. Heating and cooling require energy, as does transportation.
Human energy is an important part of the economy, as well. Humans eat food to provide them with energy. An individual human’s own energy output is relatively tiny; it is about equal to the output of a 100-watt light bulb. With the use of supplemental energy of various kinds, humans can do many tasks that would not be possible otherwise, such as cooking food, creating metals from ores, heating homes, and building cars and trucks.
The economy cannot “go backwards” because, if a product is no longer needed, it will no longer be produced. The economy represented by Figure 1 is in some sense hollow inside. For example, once people started using automobiles, buggy whips were no longer made. If cities went back to using horses as their main means of transport, we would need manure removal services. These, too, would be missing.
[2] Another way of thinking about the world economy is that it is somewhat like a rocket that needs fuel. It also has waste outputs. Both of these limit the growth of the world economy.
The economy uses a wide array of inputs. At the same time, it produces a whole host of undesirable outputs. Inputs need to be inexpensive to produce, or citizens will not be able to afford the goods and services made by the system. The waste outputs cannot become too significant, or they can lead the economy to fail. In fact, with the world’s growing population, we seem to be reaching many limits with respect to both inputs and undesirable outputs, simultaneously.
[3] Strangely enough, the major energy limit that the world economy is hitting seems to be “energy prices that do not rise high enough for producers.”
This energy limit is exactly the opposite of what most people are looking for. They assume that “demand” will always rise. In fact, the cost of production of energy products keeps rising because the easy to produce energy products are produced first. It is the market prices that energy products can be sold for that do not rise adequately.
When we trace the problem back, we discover that the problem with prices arises from the equivalence between producers of goods and services and consumers of goods and services indicated on Figure 1. In order to have enough “demand” to keep energy prices high enough for providers, it turns out that even the very low wage people in the world economy need to be able to afford necessities such as food, water, clothing, basic housing and transportation. In fact, if the cost of extracting fossil fuels rises too quickly because of depletion, or if the cost of getting renewable electricity into a form in which it is useful for society rises too much, there may be a situation when even a price based on full demand from all consumers is too low for energy producers.
Let’s define “return on human labor” as what a person without advanced training can earn by selling his physical labor as unskilled labor. Rather than dollar or euro terms, wages need to be thought of in terms of the physical goods and services that these wages can purchase. If supplemental energy per capita is rising rapidly, the return on human labor tends to rise. This happens because with higher energy consumption, humans can have more tools and technology requiring energy at their command. For example, the period between 1950 and 1970 was a time when energy consumption was rising rapidly. It was also a time of rising standards of living, even for workers without advanced training.
The world economy can be expected to run into a major problem once supplemental energy consumption per capita starts falling because then human labor is necessarily less leveraged by fewer machines, such as trucks and airplanes. In total, fewer goods and services can be produced.
If energy supply is inadequate, businesses often find it advantageous to substitute computers or other machines for some work previously done by low paid workers. While these machines use a little energy in their operation, they do not need food, housing or transportation the way human workers do. With fewer actual workers, demand for finished goods and services tends to fall, pushing commodity prices, including those for fossil fuels, down. This further adds to the low-price problem.
It is the lack of jobs that pay well that tends to hold down commodity prices below the prices producers require. Ultimately, it is the lack of sufficient jobs that pay well that tends to bring the whole economy down. Most researchers have missed this important point.
[4] In the period leading up to collapse, wages fail to rise with the cost of required services. This leads to increasingly unhappy workers. Healthcare costs and college costs are especially problematic, because their costs have been rising faster than costs in general.
Figure 4. Illustrates the issue that seems to be occurring:
When energy consumption per capita is growing rapidly, the economy adds items that were not previously considered necessary. Instead of a basic education for all being sufficient, advanced education (often paid for by the student) becomes necessary for many jobs. Healthcare costs keep rising rapidly, making it more difficult to make wages cover all necessary expenses (Figure 4).
We can see additional evidence that workers have been tending to get poorer in recent years by looking at the trend in the number of light vehicles purchased. With rising population, a person would expect the number of automobiles sold to increase, year after year, if citizens found their incomes as adequate as in the past. Instead, we see a pattern of falling automobile sales, practically everywhere, starting well before 2020. For example, peak light vehicle sales in China occurred in 2017.
[5] An increase in debt can temporarily be used to hide both inadequate inexpensive-to-produce energy supply and inadequate wages of workers, but we seem to be reaching limits using this approach to hide energy problems.
The last time the world had relatively stable low oil prices was in the years prior to 1973. As noted previously, low energy prices tend to make finished goods, such as homes and cars, inexpensive to buy and operate. Thus, they tend to be affordable.
The big issue if oil and other prices rise very high is that the selling prices of goods and services tend to rise too high to be affordable to consumers. The workaround that was developed to fix this unaffordability problem was to change the economy to use more debt. To be affordable, interest rates had to fall lower and lower. Peak interest rates occurred in 1981; they have been trending downward since then.
If debt at ever-lower interest rates is available, assets such as homes, farmland, factories and shares of stock become more affordable, allowing prices of these assets to rise. Owners of these assets feel wealthier. In fact, they may borrow more money against the inflated price of these assets and use this money to buy more goods and services made with commodities, thus helping to raise commodity prices. The lower interest rates make the purchase of automobiles more affordable as well, helping to raise the price of commodities used to make and operate automobiles.
There is a limit on how low these interest rates can go, however, especially if inflation is a problem. Current interest rates seem to be down near where they were during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This suggests that the economy is truly doing very poorly.
Today, Brent oil prices are about $69 per barrel. This price is not high enough for producers to want to prepare more fields for drilling. As far as I can see, the price needs to be up in the range of $120 per barrel, and stay there for many years, for oil producers to consider putting major effort into developing more fields. Natural gas and coal have similar low-price problems.
While governments cannot seem to be able to fix the low-price problem for fossil fuels, they can find ways to pay their citizens money for doing nothing, or next to nothing. These payments will add to a government’s debt, but they don’t really produce more goods and services. What these payments tend to produce is inflation in the prices of goods and services that are available.
Over time, we can expect the lack of growth in energy supply to lead to an increasing number of broken supply lines. Without long-term high-price guarantees, producers will not be willing to increase production. Without adequate fuel supply, an increasing number of products will disappear from the shelves of stores. A smaller number of people will have jobs, especially jobs that pay well. The economy can be expected to head in the direction of collapse.
We can think of debt as a promise of future goods and services, made with future energy production. If energy supplies are rising rapidly and can be expected to continue to rise rapidly in the future, this promise can be expected to hold. Of course, if energy supplies start falling, all bets are off. Supply lines are likely to break. We consider money and other securities issued by governments to be a “store of value,” but, if there is little to buy (for example, all international flights are cancelled and automobiles of the desired type are permanently out of stock), its ability to act as a store of value will start to disappear. If the economy collapses completely, neither stocks nor bonds will have value.
[6] Nothing happens for a single reason in a self-organizing economy. Lack of energy affects every part of the economy, from jobs to finished output, almost simultaneously.
In a self-organizing economy, everything is interconnected. Inadequate energy per capita leads to low selling prices for commodities of all kinds. Inadequate energy per capita also leads to low wages for workers, low benefits provided by governments, and uprisings to protest these low wages and benefits. These uprisings began in 2019 or even earlier.
The unhappiness of workers leads to the election of increasingly radical politicians, in the hope that something can be done to fix the problems. There are basically not enough goods and services to go around, but no one wants to admit that this could be a problem.
[7] Citizens cannot imagine a declining and eventually collapsing economy. Businesses, governments and individual citizens all demand “happily ever after futures.”
If there is a history of growth, nearly everyone is happier if forecasts pretend that economic growth can continue forever. Newspapers want such stories, because this is what their advertisers, such as automakers, want. Automobiles need to be usable for a long period in the future. Universities want favorable forecasts because they want their students to believe that their degrees will have great future value. Politicians want a story of growth forever, because this is what voters want and expect. They have come to believe that governments can save them from all problems; there is no longer any need for religion.
As energy supplies get scarce, the rich tend to become richer and the poor tend to become poorer. François Roddier explains that this is because of the physics of the situation. Wealthy individuals and corporations discover that they have a rapidly growing ability to influence the narrative provided by Mainstream Media. If influential citizens and groups want citizens to hear a “happily ever after ending” to our current problems, they can make certain that this is the predominant narrative of Mainstream Media. It is only people who are willing to hear sources outside of the mainstream who can learn what is really happening.
The fact that the world economy would run into energy limits about now has been known for a very long time. For example, US Navy Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover talks about the close connection between energy and the economy in this 1957 speech. He points out that the world is likely to run short of fossil fuel by 2050. Later modeling documented in the 1972 book The Limits to Growth indicated that the world economy was likely to collapse in a similar timeframe. The modeling done in that analysis considered rising population relative to total resources, without looking at energy resources separately.
[8] It is easy to create models that predict growth will continue forever, even if the physics of the situation says this is not possible.
Economists provide their work to politicians. They certainly cannot provide forecasts of a coming calamity such as economic collapse. They also are unaware of the physics of the situation, even though many researchers have been writing about the issue from a physics point of view since at least the mid-1980s.
Economists have chosen instead to make models that assume no limits are ahead. They seem to assume that all problems will be fixed by innovation, substitution and the pricing mechanism. They produce forecasts suggesting that the economy can grow endlessly in the future. Based on these forecasts, they provide input to models that reach the conclusion that amazingly large amounts of fossil fuels will be extracted in the future. Based on these nonsensical models, our problem is not the near-term limits that we are reaching; instead, our chief problem is climate change. Its impacts occur mostly in the future.
A corollary to this belief system is that it is we humans who are in charge and not the laws of physics. We can expect governments to protect us. We don’t need any outside help from a literal Higher Power who created the laws of physics. We need to listen to what the authorities on earth tell us. In fact, in troubled times, governments need more authority over their citizens. The many concerns regarding COVID-19 make it easy for governments to increase their control over citizens. We are told that it is only by following the mandates of governments that we will get through this strange time.
With nearly everyone on board with the idea that somehow the story of near-term collapse must be avoided at all costs, every part of the economy bases its actions on the narrative that the world economy is voluntarily moving away from fossil fuels. In this narrative, renewables will save us; electric vehicles are the way of the future; the world economy can continue to grow, but in a new way.
In fact, we are colliding with resource limits, right now. This seems to be what produced the bizarre situation experienced in 2020.
[9] As 2020 began, many sectors of the world economy were squeezed simultaneously. With limited energy resources, large parts of the economy needed to be cut back. The self-organizing economy acted in a very strange way. Shutdowns supposedly aimed at stopping COVID-19 from spreading acted very much like energy rationing, without mentioning the world’s energy problem.
Several years before 2020, it should have been clear that the world economy was doing very poorly based on the continued need for very low interest rates (Figure 7) and Quantitative Easing. China, in particular, was doing poorly, as indicated by its low sales of automobiles (Figure 5). Of course, China doesn’t broadcast its problems to the rest of the world, so few people were aware of this issue.
China had been able to boost the world’s per capita supply of inexpensive-to-produce energy by ramping up its coal production after it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. (Note the world ramp-up in coal, starting after 2001, on Figure 9.) Unfortunately, because of depletion, China’s coal production since 2013 has been close to flat. Furthermore, China had had a big recycling business, but discontinued it effective January 1, 2018. Discontinuation of this program was necessary because oil prices had fallen in 2014 and had never recovered to their former level. With low oil prices, most recycling in China made no sense economically. The loss of jobs from recycling and cutbacks in coal operations no doubt contributed to the declining sale of vehicles in China.
In the years before 2020, another big issue was that the wages of many workers were not keeping up with the rising cost of living. Figure 4 illustrates this issue for the US. The problem was especially acute for lower wage workers. During this period, the prices of many commodities were too low for producers. This led to layoffs and low wages for workers.
In early 2020, the world became aware of a new coronavirus that had been identified in China. The response to this new illness was very strange, compared to how previous pandemics had been handled. The response looked a great deal like intentionally scaring people (especially older people) into staying at home. If this were done, much less oil could be used. Natural gas and coal consumption could be reduced, as well.
This story is perhaps not so strange if we look at it in context. On January 8, 2020, I wrote that we should be expecting recession and low oil prices in 2020. I included this oil price chart.
On January 29, I wrote, It is easy to overreact to a coronavirus. In this article, I pointed out that the economy already seemed to be headed in the direction of recession. Shutdowns would only make the problem worse.
Politicians choosing to shut down their economies in early 2020 were likely not aware that the real underlying problem within their economy was inadequate availability of inexpensive-to-produce energy. They were aware that China had decided to shut down part of its economy, so perhaps there might be some usefulness to such an action. Local leaders outside of China knew that their own factories were underutilized. If their own factories could be shut down temporarily, perhaps they could operate at closer to capacity, once they reopened.
Furthermore, a shutdown would give an excuse to keep workers protesting low wages inside. After the shutdown, there would be an excuse to raise the debt level, perhaps keeping the financial part of the economy going for a while longer. So, a shutdown would have many benefits, apart from any potential benefit from (sort of) containing the virus.
It became apparent as time went on that the vaccine story for COVID-19 was playing multiple roles, as well. The healthcare industry was becoming very large in the US. In fact, the size of the healthcare industry was beginning to interfere with the economy as a whole (Figure 4). Furthermore, manufacturers of medicines and vaccines were having problems with diminishing returns because the big, important drug finds had been discovered years ago. It was becoming difficult to profitably fund all of the research needed for new drugs.
Behind the scenes, the vaccine industry had been working for years on creating new viruses and preparing vaccines for these same viruses. The theory was that the same approaches that delivered vaccines might be helpful in treating diseases of various kinds. Vaccines might also be helpful in responding to bioweapon attacks. If drug manufacturers could market a blockbuster vaccine, the manufacturers, as well as the individuals holding the vaccine patents, could become rich.
The US was not alone in the research with respect to viruses and vaccines for these viruses. Many major countries, including Canada, France, Italy, Australia and China had funded this research, partly through their budgets for health research and partly through military budgets. There was virtually no chance that anyone would figure out the source of any problematic virus because so many major countries had had a part in funding this research. If citizens could be convinced that the virus was extremely dangerous and mandate the use of vaccines, the vaccine industry could greatly profit from vaccine sales. The vaccine could be created and marketed quickly because all of the research (but not enough testing) had been performed earlier.
A great deal of planning had been done before the pandemic appeared, based to a significant extent upon what outcome vaccine makers would prefer. Johns Hopkins University completed a SPARS Pandemic Scenario in October 2017, rehearsing responses to a pandemic. A training exercise called Event 201 was held on October 18, 2019, for the purpose of training high level government officials and news writers what their responses should be.
The sponsors of Event 201 were “The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” The latter two organizations are representatives of the very wealthy individuals and very large corporations. The primary interest of these organizations is enriching those who are already wealthy. The World Economic Forum is known for proclaiming, “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
As time went on, it became very clear that the true nature of the COVID-19 epidemic was being hidden from citizens. It was, and is, not a terribly dangerous illness if it is treated properly with any number of inexpensive medications including aspirin, ivermectin, antihistamine and steroids. In fact, the severity of the disease could also be lessened by taking vitamin D in advance. There really was not a great deal of point to the vaccines, except to enrich the vaccine manufacturers and those who would benefit from the sale of the vaccines, including Anthony Fauci and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It also became clear that the vaccines don’t really do what a person might expect a vaccine to do. They do tend to stop severe illness, but taking vitamin D in advance would provide pretty much the same benefit. They don’t stop COVID-19 from circulating because vaccinated people can still catch COVID-19. The vaccines seem to have any number of side effects, including raising the risk of heart attacks.
The historical period most similar to the current period, in terms of shortage of energy supply, is that between World War I and World War II. At that time, the Jews were persecuted. Now, there is an attempt to divide the world into Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, with the Unvaccinated persecuted. When the economy cannot produce enough goods and services for all members of the economy, the economy seems to divide into almost warring parts.
We are basically trying to deal with an energy scenario that looks a lot like Figure 8, and the self-organizing economy comes up with very strange solutions. If people can convince themselves that it is OK to ostracize the unvaccinated, then maybe the move down the collapse will go more smoothly. For example, the military can be cut back in size by dismissing the unvaccinated, without admitting that with current resources, there is a need to reduce the size of the military.
Europe is the part of the world where the push for vaccinations is now highest. It is also in terrible shape with respect to energy supply. By ostracizing the unvaccinated, European countries can attempt to cut back their economies to the size that their energy supply will support, without admitting the real problem.
[10] The world economy is increasingly acting like economies that have collapsed in the past. In fact, there seems to be a connection with some of the strange statements from the book of Revelation.
We are living in a world now in which even if there are temporary price spikes, there is little chance that fossil fuel providers will ramp up their production. In order to ramp up supplies, they would need to start several years in advance, preparing new fields. Oil, coal and gas prices have stayed so low, for so long, that there is no belief that prices can rise to a high enough level and stay there, as the fuels are extracted. Thus, the fossil fuel will stay in the ground.
At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that renewables cannot be depended upon. In fact, low generation of electricity by wind turbines is part of the reason Europe is having to import the large quantity of natural gas and coal supplies it now requires. There is concern that rolling blackouts may be necessary during the winter in Europe, if not this year, sometime in the next few years.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the future energy scenario will look something like Figure 8, causing world population to fall dramatically within the next thirty years. This is the kind of situation most of us would associate with collapse. I think of it as being equivalent to end times, since our modern civilization will be disappearing. It is possible that there will be a remnant of people left, but they will be living a much simpler life, without fossil fuels or modern renewables.
There are several parts to what is happening that remind me of Old Testament writings in general, and of the book of Revelation (from the New Testament), in particular.
First, the willingness of the ultra-rich to look out for themselves and keep what look like perfectly good, cheap cures for COVID-19 from the world population seems to be precisely the kind of despicable behavior that Old Testament prophets despised. For example, in Amos 5:21-24, Amos tells the Jews that God despises their prior behavior. In verse 24 (NIV), he says, “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”
As I noted in the introduction, Revelation 18 talks about lack of demand being an issue in the collapse of Babylon, and presumably in any future collapse that occurs. Revelation 18:11-13 reads:
11 The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore— 12 cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;13 cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
The need for vaccine passports in some countries reminds a person of Revelation 13:17, “they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.” In fact, people in Sweden are getting microchip implants after its latest COVID passport mandate.
Some people believe that Revelation 12 describes the Antichrist; that is, the polar opposite of Christ. Before the world comes to an end, Revelation 12 seems to predict a great fight against this Antichrist, which Christ wins. I could imagine Anthony Fauci being the Antichrist.
We are not used to living in a world where very little that is published by the Mainstream Media makes sense. But when we live in a time where no one wants to hear what is true, the system changes in a bizarre way, so that a great deal that is published is false.
It is disturbing to think that we may be living near the end of the world economy, but there is an upside to this situation. We have had the opportunity to live at a time with more conveniences than any other civilization. We can appreciate the many conveniences we have.
We also have the opportunity to decide how we want to live the rest of our lives. We have been led for many years down the path of believing that economic growth will last forever; all we need to do is have faith in the government and our educational institutions. If we figure out that this really isn’t the path to follow, we can change course now. If we want to choose a more spiritual approach, this is a choice we can still make.
Unvaccinated Left To Die – CDC Releases New Guidelines Before Going To A Shelter And There Are Different Guidelines For The Vaccinated And Unvaccinated
People were advised to go to shelters and some of them did and some of them didn’t make t!
But what about the new CDC guidelines of getting people sheltered.
Well, according to them the tornadoes can wait for the unvaccinated to first get the vaccine and then they should go to the nearest shelter, basically, they’re left to de!
If you’re under a tornado warning, review the CDC guidelines before going to a shelter. There are different guidelines for the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
The first step is to find a vaccine.
https://redstatenation.com/unvaccinated-left-to-die-cdc-releases-new-guidelines-before-going-to-a-shelter-and-there-are-different-guidelines-for-the-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-images/
I sure wish we could have a forum just for covid and the fake vacs…… a comment here and then I get it… but 20 a day from one person!!!! I believe it takes away from Gails time to put up new post and comment on post when she has to spend all of her time cleaning up the forums. A bit selfish if you ask me……
I very much agree, Sam – this virus has even infected Gail’s forum
If you don’t see the connections among a finite planet, limited resources, world financial problems, possible wars due to these problems, alternative ways to make wars according to new technologies and limited resources, alternative ways to keep together a system that would be in deep collapse and so on, I’m afraid to say that it is a pity for you both, not for this blog.
All the best
I struggle to understand how those who understand the energy issue are unable to connect the covid scam to that….
norm – why are you unable to connect those dots?
and WVK? That is actually part of the reason for VK.
There is a connection, but there gets to be too much fighting. That is the problem.
There might be a connection but it is purely conjecture at this stage and it seems more likely that there is no connection.
There’s a fair bit of MOREONISM going around on OFW….
just like water circling round the drainhole
when there’s a lot of moreonism going around
the laws of physics make it inevitable that there’s a vortex in the centre
And here we have norm the clown
MKV
must be pre-bed time in eddyland
couldn’t you get a nice clinic nurse to come and read you a nice bedtime story eddy?
Does anyone know why norm won’t answer the question?
And Gail’s posts and comments! Do you even read what she writes? See her comment below. Maybe those who want to dictate what Gail writes and what readers comment on are the ones being selfish.
he would be a 50 a day man if he didn’t have to break off for meals and bathroom breaks
WMK?
norm – do you need help with setting up http://www.MOREONS.com...
Start your own blog Sam. I’m not here for the sound of majority, not for the terror of democracy, and not for the stupidity of moar.
THe comments in total are worth coming here for as there is so much to choose from. Energy issues won’t be resolved, we will collapse – maybe fast, maybe slow and the comment section raises all sorts of info and opinion linked to that.
I used to get annoyed with Harry and his posting news but now I really appreciate it as he is an excellent curator – thanks Harry.
I imagine that if Gail has a problem with any of it, she will change something. Otherwise just keep commenting Sam as your posts are worth reading too.
I sure wish there were no MOREONS on OFW cluttering it up.
We should only allow norm dunc anna and mike on … they provide enough fodder …
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rebel-capitalist-show/id1492584441?i=1000544496855
I am trying to find it on YouTube so I can see the charts have not found it yet
Sam, this is the video
Art Berman says, “I don’t think you are going to get oil to $100, on the patterns we are seeing.”
This rise in price is not going to be enough to get much more long term shale production.
I am afraid I didn’t listen to the video much after this.
Gail you have said that oil needs to be 120 a barrel however according to Art Berman on George Gammons podcast, he shows that oil companies are healthy and taking out cash to give to shareholders. He further postulates that companies can do fine at 70 to 80 and that they are easily keeping up with demand. So much so that there is a glut of oil for a long time to come. Also on oilprce website there is a story that a lot of the frackers are making money and the price because they can get the oil out cheaply. Correct me if I am wrong but I thought you said that fracking is very expensive to get the oil out and that they have already hit the sweet spots. Then why are they producing almost what they were before the virus…?
If the oil price had to be 120 a barrel then in this last downturn we would have seen a lot of oil companies go out of business. Not seeing it at all….if this continues to be the case we will BAU go sailing along easily for another 10-30 years! 80 percent of your readers will be dead!
Is this the reason for the constant covid drivel? In one year this virus will be a thing of the past along with the fake vaccines….????
I wonder if the higher price of say, $120 a barrel, needs to be assured and established before big oil will resume expoloration and new drilling in earnest, instead of relying on drilling uncompleted (DUC) shale wells which for now reportedly are a 40% cost savings compared to drilling new wells from scratch. These DUCs are being used for now. When the last DUC is gone, costs will increase I would think.
Plus the financialization via pension and 401K money looking for anything, including essentially non profitable things like Tesla, that may give a hint of potential returns.
But for now, if the economy tanks and oil demand plummets, then all bets are off. Which wins the race to the bottom. The demand destruction price of oil by consummers, or the inability of the oil drillers to produce even lesser amounts profitably if the consummer is tapped out.
I’ve given up trying to make any sense of this. Besides food and water. better investment may be to simply buy warm clothes and sleeping bags in case of electrical or fossil fuel power supply interruptions. Even firewood and wood stoves can be problematic.
The only way that companies are affording to give dividends to investors is to cut back on exploration and capital investment – we have already been finding less oil than is needed to replace reserves that have been used for decades – this makes it even worse.
As to oil just flowing – just read an assessment that:
“After making the adjustments discussed above, we believe demand will exceed pumping capacity by 4Q22″
This would be a first – twice in history supply has been less than demand but that was because of prices being too low – supply pumping has always been at least slightly greater than demand (not too much because non-economic to have excess spare capacity) they are predicting 4Q22 that there will be insufficient pumping capacity to meet demand – this will be when we see how much consumers can afford – will certainly trigger recession (we have already had yeild curve inversions & we have had a spike then decline in oil prices (another predictive indicator or recession)
they continue:
” Twelve months ago, few people listened when we predicted an energy crisis was imminent. Now, our models suggest that we could be entering a new period in the history of oil – a period without any excess global pumping capability. The ramifications could be huge. Investors today have hardly any exposure to oil producing companies at all. After having averaged 10-15% of the S&P 500 for decades (and reaching a maximum of 30%), energy stocks today stand at less than 3% of index.
Just as few investors saw the energy crisis, fewer believe an oil crisis is looming. Position yourselves accordingly.”
https://blog.gorozen.com/blog/running-out-of-spare-capacity-global-oil-markets
Regarding shale:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/has-eia-massively-overestimated-potential-us-shale
Many others have pointed out the heavy subsidies/investment funds funding shale and without these shale isn’t profitable..ponzi..
Also this one:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world-economy-entering-period-of-oil-scarcity-halliburton-ceo-says_4143310.html
and this
https://doomberg.substack.com/
Very well written/fun read – starts off talking about Discovery’s Gold Rush & relates insights/observations to give a good explanation of problems faced by shale Oil. Also reinforces possible supply problems 4Q22
Supports CEP.
Why would you try to squeeze oil out of a rock in the first place? Because the sun put it in there? Give me a f*ccking break. Add more traffic signs and you won’t be able to drive anymore.
You’re welcome.
Read all posts at peakoilbarrel.com about Opec, watch what happens in finance. Its over. Deal with it. Sam. And please start your own blog. For free. WordPress, whatever. For free.
It is the new investments that the oil companies need to be making, but aren’t that they aren’t really making, that are the problem. Oil companies give dividends to shareholders instead.
Also, Art is looking at the US. Other places (Canada, Venezuela, Africa, the Middle East) need higher prices, as both to get high enough taxes as to do the additional investment that is required. OPEC+ is not keeping its promises on higher production.
Governments may need that level of oil price but have to make do with less. Oil companies still, mostly, make a profit but can’t sustain the high level of investment needed to maintain or increase production, with reduced prices. I guess some companies have gone out of business or been gobbled by larger companies but we rarely hear about them.
The latest Ashcroft poll finds that 2/3 in NI expect Ireland to be united within 10 years. A mere four point swing would swing a border poll that way now.
Catholics have been a growing majority of school admissions for 20 years, and the slight pro-UK majority is heavily concentrated in the oldest age groups. Over 70% of under 25s would vote for Irish unity.
Brexit is another factor, and most in NI are aware that most in Britain could not care less either way, as polls have found.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10300475/Ireland-unite-decade-say-voters-Survey-reveals-majority-think-North-quit-Union.html
> Ireland could be united within a decade, say voters – as a survey reveals the majority think the North will quit the Union in a future poll
Fears that Northern Ireland will eventually vote to quit the United Kingdom are laid bare in a poll published today.
Based on interviews with 3,301 people, the poll records that if a vote were held tomorrow, most people would vote not to join the Republic by 54 per cent to 46 per cent (excluding ‘don’t knows’).
Most voters expect a referendum or border poll within the next decade, and while the majority believe the province would vote to remain tomorrow, only one in three think this would be the outcome in ten years.
There are five main reasons. The first is simple demographics.
As one Catholic voter told us cheerfully and candidly in nationalist Strabane: ‘We breed better than they do. They have big TVs; we have big families.’ More than seven in ten voters aged under 25 said they would vote for a united Ireland.
Second is Brexit. Most believe that leaving the EU was the wrong decision for Northern Ireland, and nearly nine in ten blame Brexit for shortages in their shops. More than one in five say Brexit has made them question their support for the province remaining part of the UK.
Third is the belief that the rest of the UK is indifferent to Northern Ireland’s place in the Union. Voters on all sides feel that their British compatriots regard them as an expensive nuisance, and that any talk of ‘levelling up’ applies to the North of England, not to them.
Nearly four in ten Unionists – not to mention two-thirds of nationalists – think that even if it can’t say so, the Westminster Government would rather Ulster joined its southern neighbour. Boris Johnson’s agreement to an Irish Sea border under the Northern Ireland Protocol only adds weight to this perennial suspicion.
Fourth is the understanding that as the Troubles become a more distant memory – and, for younger voters, not even that – traditional loyalties will count for less. In some ways, this is an answer to prayers. ‘We’re damaged goods from a time that was just awful,’ as one old Loyalist put it.
That generation has longed for their children to be able to grow up in a place where politics is not dominated by green and orange, Catholic and Protestant. But the more real this vision becomes, the less instinctive loyalty the Union might command – especially as the Republic looks to many like a more modern and liberal place than the North.
The final cause of Unionist gloom is their feeling that, in the political arena, they have simply been outclassed. None would want to turn the clock back on the peace process or the Good Friday Agreement.
But many believe that through a combination of patience, strategic discipline, reinvention, presentational genius and sheer persistence, the nationalists are on course to achieve their aim.
Many on all sides expect Sinn Fein to become the largest party at Stormont after the Assembly elections next year.
The latest poll in the south finds that 80% of voters with an opinion favour Irish unity. 65% of those with an opinion want a border poll either now or within the next ten years. That sounds like a reasonable timescale, given survey findings in the north.
If Scotland has Indy2 about 2025, then Ireland can prepare to have a border poll about 2029. Sinn Fein is likely to take the post of FM in 2022 and to enter government in the south in 2025, which would fit with that timescale.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/republic-of-ireland-irish-people-irish-times-mary-lou-mcdonald-b1974189.html
> Large majority of voters in Republic in favour of Irish unity – poll
A large majority of voters in the Republic would back a united Ireland in a referendum, a new poll has shown.
The Ipsos MRBI study for the Irish Times showed that 62% of voters would support Irish unity, with 16% opposed – 13% said they do not know, while 8% said they would not vote.
Most voters said they would like to see a vote issue take place “in the next 10 years”, at 42%. That is compared with 16% who said they wanted the poll to be held more than a decade into the future, 15% who want one now and 13% who said never.
People aged 25 to 34 are the biggest supporters of a united Ireland, at 67%, closely followed by the over 65s, on 66%. People aged 18 to 24 and 50 to 64 are least likely to support the move, but a majority would still back it, with 57% of voters in each cohort in favour.
The survey was conducted in the Republic of Ireland among a national quota sample of 1,200 people between December 5 and 8, among people over 18 and throughout every constituency.
SNP is set to form the next Westminster government with Labour, which would obviously entail Indy2. Polls can obviously change by May 2024, but it seems very unlikely that Labour would gain an outright majority of seats. There is zero chance that SNP would prop up a Labour government without a firm commitment to Indy2 as, and in the manner, mandated by the Scottish parliament.
> Britain Predicts — model update
Hung parliament with Con the largest party, but Lab+SNP would make a majority
CON: 286 MPs (-79)
LAB: 272 (+70)
SNP: 55 (+7)
LDEM: 13 (+2)
The PM would hold his constituency with but a 3pt majority.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2021/12/election-win-calculator
It seems to be unclear how Ashcroft obtained his poll ‘results’ from the following, which seems to suggest 45% for Irish unity, 43% for UK (51.2% vs 48.8% with do not know/ unsure removed.) He seems to have dumped ‘unsure’ in with pro-UK?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGa7SqwWQAYRVLA?format=jpg
The NHS is preparing for the mass vaccination of children as young as five to fight Omicron wave, leaked documents reveal
Medics have been told to start preparing for mass vaccination of 5-11 year olds
Leaked NHS England documents say parental consent will be needed for jabs
It comes after expert said UK’s surge in Covid cases is being driven by children
Professor John Edmunds argued that vaccines for children should be brought in
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10300607/Medics-preparing-mass-vaccinations-children-young-five-leaked-NHS-documents-reveal.html
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that “we” might have to start the whole series of vaccines over again. Shot 1, Shot 2 then endless boosters.
https://twitter.com/JasonLambertCE5/status/1469982515561566209
Very interesting to understand, directly from the ‘deus ex machina’***, that we are following a path of experimental vaccination about which, speak frankly, ‘we don’t know’ how it will go on.
In other words:
‘ok doc., try to cure my herd somehow, at the very least if the attempt is unsuccessful, I will suppress it. I don’t want to lose time to cure it from here to the livestock center, thanks.’
*** sorry but I couldn’t find a better way to explain this concept, please see: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/deus-ex-machina/
Omicron is a a giant nothingburger
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGXuY4LXEAUUG-Z?format=jpg&name=900×900
Having left Japan around May 31, and returned recently, here are some price comparisons over a time lag of 190 days. I shop always at the same supermarket, same butcher, plus the local Costco. Some items are estimated from getting smaller packages, or from getting beef from two sources.
Food Increase (%)
Yogurt 300 ml +12 (168-> 187)
Avocado (1) +69 (99->168)
Mackerel +12 (500-> 560)
Beef +25 (steaks and roast beef)
Fruit +25 (apples and kiwis)
Eggs +22 (238->278)
Natto +32 (59->78)
Costco pork +10 (loin roast)
No significant increases seen in fish eggs, peanuts, and most vegetables. Shelves well stocked but the raw fish section at Kazumi was nearly empty. Gelatin and liver have increased but I do not know by how much. And this is prior to the great fertilizer induced famine of late 2022.
This won’t help Japan’s economy.
“Scottish Nationalists hopes for windpower economy slammed… A Westminster source raised questions about the Scottish government’s energy plan, suggesting it would struggle to keep the lights on without alternative sources of energy.
““Thankfully, energy is reserved policy for the UK government. Because I don’t know what on earth they [Scotland] would do if they were abandoning oil and gas and putting all their eggs in the offshore wind basket,” the source added. “They’d be having power cuts every day.””
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scottish-nationalists-hopes-for-windpower-economy-slammed-8k689dcf3
“Fracking companies threaten to sue the [UK] Government over ban…
“The onshore shale gas industry has exchanged “pre-action correspondence” with Whitehall after it was barred from drilling following concern over earthquakes in 2019, before any gas was produced.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/11/government-sued-frackers-unequal-treatment-energy-crisis-deepens/
I expect that the cost of extraction using fracking would be even higher in the UK than the US, making the extraction even less profitable at today’s low prices. It is an effort that can’t work.
IT’S A B-MOVIE STARRING RETINOIC ACID
“Yes Victoria, they probably did”
TITLE: The effects of all-trans retinoic acid on immune cells and its formulation design for vaccines.
AAPS J. 2021 Feb
“As one of the most important metabolites of vitamin A, all-trans retinoic acid (RA) plays a crucial role in regulating immune responses. RA has been shown to promote the differentiation of naive T and B cells and perform diverse functions in the presence of …”
The idea about medicine maybe using Retinoic Acid in a vaccine is akin to the “Oh, we’re just maybe possibly theoretically considering the potential use of Solar Radiation Management spraying of sulfur compounds to cool Earth”. Yeah, right; more like these geoengineering conferences of late are simply awkward limited hang-outs, coming after years of massive experimental work up there. Geoengineering is probably in such a predicament at this point that the egg-heads can barely keep track of their mistakes, mucking around as they are at the boundary of the stratosphere.
Similar to the hypothesized use of Retinoic Acid and its isomers for particular therapeutic effects.
Check out the study on Tetanus Immunization below if you don’t think there’s a plausible reason to use Retinoic Acid in a vaccine. Remember, they can’t say it’s in a Covid-jab because RA is a no-no for women of child-bearing age. It’s a teratogen and everybody knows it. And not to mention everyone and their sister being loaded to the gills with Retinol the mother molecule; covered under the “Vitamin A” umbrella-terminology. Retinol which metabolizes to Retinoic Acid. Retinol, of which you get a month’s-worth RDA-blast just from pigging-out on a yummy tray of cheese. It’s the affluent nations that are suffering the bulk of the Autoimmune Epidemics. It’s likely one reason we import healthier people who then take a generation to succumb. The only way a person can tell if they’re at the threshold of RA-induced disease-expression is by having a liver-biopsy. Bloodwork doesn’t tell you what you need to know.
TITLE: Oral vitamin A and retinoic acid supplementation stimulates antibody production and splenic Stra6 expression in tetanus toxoid-immunized mice.
J Nutr. 2012 Aug (PMID: 22739370)
“Coadministration of retinoic acid (RA) and polyinosinic acid:polycytidylic acid (PIC) has been shown to cooperatively enhance the anti-tetanus toxoid (anti-TT) vaccine response in adult mice. Germinal center formation in the spleen is cri …”
Covid-19 Disease is in high probability a Retinoic Acid Disease; exacerbated by vaccine-induced liver-damage, environmental toxicity, and stress-inducing fear-mongering which is multiplied by the panic due to locked-down family members. Yes, stress and panic can cause the liver to dump retinoids into the bloodstream by a factor of 10x-20x. If other tissues are already saturated by storing retinoids that the liver previously couldn’t handle, look-out below.
Grant Genereux pointed out years ago when still dealing with his own Eczema that the immune system is fooled by this RA-poison. It thinks the cellular destruction it’s investigating is caused by a pathogen it can eliminate. It goes berserk because it can’t eliminate a poison. The medical nitwits call that “Autoimmunity”, as if we evolved for hundreds of thousands of years only to destroy ourselves in this way. Grant ridiculed the early rat-studies in the 1920’s; where Wolbach and Howe supposedly identified a missing-substance they called Vitamin A, in a diet they had concocted that was loaded with Retinoic Acid, unknown at the time. He noted that had they talked to a Midwest grain farmer they’d know that rats survive winters quite well on zero-retinol without going blind. The lab rats weren’t dying in 10-weeks with lesions, blindness, bone fractures and massive inflammation due to a lack of “Vitamin” A. They were being poisoned by the researchers. Conflicting studies that used normal rat-diets without much Retinol or Retinoic Acid were shoved under the rug. It’s profoundly difficult to understand how this egregious mistake has never been corrected. I’ve said it before, Grant is like the Galileo of our time when it comes to seeing the big picture of chronic-disease causation.
It would be nice to know how does it react in the form of fermented cheese / milk products, the Retinol / Retinoic acid probably transforms (dissolves / degrades) at least partially into something less harmful.. Another interesting related subject would be the list of veggies helping in that process.
Because there are human cultures eating tons of cheese doing ok long term, so there must be some trick to it, either breeds of animals or something else as alluded above..
Good points – could be the Retinyl Palmitate in food fortification added on top of the stack; undermining the catabolic defenses against VA. Not all countries are as devoted to adulterating food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinyl_palmitate#:~:text=From%20Wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia%20Retinyl%20palmitate%2C%20or,abundant%20form%20of%20vitamin%20A%20storage%20in%20animals.
Grant had a story about a small area in South America where yams were the staple food and they had Alzheimer’s out the wazoo. A local research guy started studying it and was seduced by grant-money ‘out-of-the-blue’ by Roche (if I recall) to study something else. It was probably around the time they were defending 7,000 lawsuits for Accutane damages. The last thing they would have needed was another VA-headline story.
The long-lived group in the South of Japan lived mostly on purple sweet potatoes. It would not have had the high vitamin A content, I would think.
What does Victoria Beckham have to say about omincron?
It sounds like we should be reading Grant Genereux’s Vitamin A write up.
https://ggenereux.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/poisoningforprofits.pdf
It is not a short read, but I slogged through it.
Much of it makes sense using the logic he applies
He is very convincing and I don’t doubt that he has a real problem with Vitamin A, just not sure it applies to all – certainly a call to awareness.
He probably goes too far with suggesting that 1962 monkey virus contamination of polio vax is source AIDS & Vit A in foods is attempt to coverup (at least without a lot more evidence then his superior deductive skills) – so the read starts out seemingly more reasonable than it ends
I wish the state of Medical Science was such that an honest review and process of the questionable Science could be done and trusted, so we would know what was really responsible for all of the Chronic Disease in First World
After being brought up to trust Vaccines (great uncle was a Pediatrician/Whooping Cough/Respiratory Med Researcher) Mother a
Nurse brought up to believe in most Drs/Medicine..it has taken a long time to get to understanding that most vaccines may all be useless and probably detrimental – but then seeing all these youngsters w/ serious problems (youngest two sons: Aspergers & chronic asthma; nephew early thirties bowel resection ulcerative colitis; another nephew transgender; step-daughter more chronic ailments than can list) We have certainly messed up somewhere!
I did search the web and came across people that are attempting to eliminate Vit A – for some appears to work – for others they are struggling and seem to feel they need it – who knows may they are Pharma shills?
High School English Teacher – Quotes on Wall – her go to:
Delphian Mottos: Moderation in all things & know thyself
Easy to read off the wall – lot harder to live it
“The Inflation Pros From Argentina Offer Tips for Rattled Americans…
“…don’t hesitate to borrow money to finance some of those big purchases. If you can get a loan at a rate below inflation — something that’s possible for many Americans today — go for it. Inflation will make it easier to repay the loan in coming months and years.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-11/the-inflation-pros-from-argentina-offer-tips-for-rattled-americans
“‘Headed for disaster’: Argentinians protest against IMF debt deal.
“Thousands of people have rallied in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, urging their government not to sign any kind of debt restructuring deal with the International Monetary Fund.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/12/headed-for-disaster-argentinians-protest-against-imf-debt-deal
“Brazil Grapples With Old Nemesis Inflation Amid Pandemic… economists expect Brazil to remain stuck in recession during 2022 as it battles one of the world’s highest annual inflation rates of 10.7%….
“A sharp depreciation in the Brazilian real—which has lost about 25% of its value against the dollar over the past two years—has increased the price of imported goods including fuel, adding to inflation.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-grapples-with-old-nemesis-inflation-amid-pandemic-11639234804
From Argentinians, comes advice? LOL. That is, assuming you will still have a job that will allow you to make the payments with what is left over after your paycheck has been consumed on the other end by rapidly inflating costs of everything else.
This recommendation assumes you will still have a job or pension to pay for the goods. If further assumes that the amount of the job pays or the pension is increased will rise inflation.
I would agree with borrow money to buy now. The reason is, “It may not be available later.” Also, it is the lender who will have a problem if you default. Taking the used object back later won’t be feasible.
Jerusalem Post: ‘Three shots of Pfizer COVID vaccine 4x less effective against Omicron.
Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis says country could recommend boosters as early as three months after second shot.
The neutralizing ability of even three shots of the Pfizer corona vaccine is four times less against the Omicron than the Delta variant, according to researchers at Sheba Medical Center.’
(and Pfizer was already less effective against Delta than the original virus).
Do we ask mandatory vaccination for such a very low effective jab?
Do we give it to children?
Have we realized that every shot is becoming shorter and shorter in terms of time on every following round? Following this path we will be receive vaccines every month.
Are we crazy?
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/two-covid-vaccine-shots-does-not-protect-against-omicron-sheba-688496
“Pakistan is in deep economic crisis. The economic crisis of Pakistan becoming more worsening, electricity charges will become more expensive and there will be hardly any gas available for household and industry…
“The government is advised to ban import of luxurious items, confectionary items, cars, mobile phones, makeup kits, and reduce the already increased interest rates…”
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40139434
“‘Life is hell’: Afghans starving to death in streets are forced to give up children as hunger crisis bites.
“The UN estimates half of the country cannot feed themselves as the end of international aid has removed any financial security for millions… The situation does not yet meet the technical definition of famine, but it is heading that way, international officials say.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/life-afghans-starving-death-streets-forced-give-children-hunger/
“Winter harvest likely to be hit as fertiliser shortage harasses [Nepal’s] farmers…
“The shortage of vital farm inputs may dampen this year’s winter crop harvests which are a crucial source of income for tens of thousands of farmers across the country.”
https://kathmandupost.com/money/2021/12/11/winter-harvest-likely-to-be-hit-as-fertiliser-shortage-harasses-farmers
I made a website to help them out:
http://www.sellyourchildintoslavery.com
I am also working on a site that allows pathetic losers who live in their parents basements connect online for sessions with fit Muslim girls in The Ghan… http://www.theghan.com (it’s not quite ready yet)
FE Your mentioning of fit Muslim girls and poor pathetic losers living in basements reminded me of an interesting fellow came across on twitter (which I abandoned about a year ago) .. he, like you, gets accused/self-portrayed as being chauvanistic objectifier that thinks very highly of himself (or at least his character does) – he likes to provoke with questions that make some uncomfortable – but that can be useful – good practice looking from another perhaps strange perspective – and thinks highly of his own advice & wisdom
https://twitter.com/EvilVizier
He dabbles in writing & music – I found his “memiors” (fair warning it might be considered by some as baudy) amusing because of the manner of storytelling and use of language (I dont think the art is his – I think from the era in which his story is placed) Certainly story is not inappropriate for the era in which it is placed, but isnt appropriate for those looking to be judgmental or who dont like to be provoked (so if any reading this one of those please dont click the links)
https://www.jsanilac.com/greetings/
for intro to his memoirs
scroll to bottom of page to find other shorter writings which may amuse
The poor countries are having many, many problems.
“S&P Cuts Turkey Outlook to Negative on Lira Dive, Inflation.
“S&P Global Ratings lowered the outlook on Turkey’s sovereign credit rating to negative, citing the lira’s recent weakening and rising inflation that the credit assessor says poses risks to the country’s “externally leveraged economy.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-10/s-p-cuts-turkey-outlook-to-negative-on-lira-dive-inflation
“Turkish Cypriots are eyeing a transition to the euro as the tumbling Turkish Lira is destroying their economy as they see their earnings vanish while inflation spirals.”
https://www.financialmirror.com/2021/12/11/turkish-cypriots-eye-euro-as-lira-crumbles/
“Turkish lira collapse piles misery on northern Syria.
“Mohammed al-Debek, a schoolteacher in northern Syria, is on strike: The currency devaluation in neighbouring Turkey has slashed the value of his salary by two-thirds…”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/turkish-lira-collapse-piles-misery-northern-syria-2374446
“Syrian government encourages renewable energy investments to ease electricity crisis…
“Syria’s Minister of Electricity Ghassan al-Zamil stated to the local pro-government al-Watan newspaper that the new law would encourage investment in renewable energy projects.”
https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2021/12/syrian-government-encourages-renewable-energy-investments-to-ease-electricity-crisis/
Burning trees?
Renewable energy? Hydroelectric can’t work very well in Syria, with its water problems. Wind and solar are way too intermittent. Burning trees, as Fast Eddy says. But that is not a long-term solution.
Rather strange:
Also, with Europe’s energy crisis, I am afraid the Euro won’t do well either.
“ . . . this as a virus
32:25 the virus is merely the delivery system
32:27 for the real bio weapon
32:29 a prion and a prion is an abnormally
32:33 folded protein
32:34 that causes damage throughout the body
32:37 including mad cow disease alzheimer’s
32:41 inflammation and blood clotting
32:45 seroscop2 the abbreviation for
32:49 severe acute respiratory syndrome
32:51 coronavirus . . . “ ?
Mike Yeadon again! Talking for seven minutes about how the jabs and the passports are not about public health, but are about totalitarian control and permanent tyranny, and quoting Aldous Huxley.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8IkpkQ1mdWqq/
Tim. Thank you! This is flat out tyranny and the Australian interview had me up and about with her spiel about “regular” vaccination and better get use to it as we get better vaccines.
Yeadon is 100% correct, this needs to be stopped now before it gets established, the so called passports will never be gotten rid of if it’s allowed.
They are hell bent in their reset agenda.
This really opened up my eyes….hope Anne is still with us to view it…
Scientific study on the importance of early treatment for Covid-19 and what to give to patients according to symptomps, article explained by Prof. Bellavite:
https://comedonchisciotte.org/studio-sullimportanza-della-terapia-precoce-di-covid-19/
Prof. Bellavite website: http://www.paolobellavite.it/
It can be useful to know that Prof. Bellavite was Head of Research at the University of Verona and he has been recently fired because he started promoting early treatment than experimental vaccines, although he is an expert of vaccines.
I can tell from the chart linked
https://comedonchisciotte.org/controinformazione/wp-content/uploads/comedonchisciotte-org-informazione-alternativa-paolo-bellavite-schema-terapia-precoce-covid.png
that Prof. Bellavite is using pretty much the same protocol as some others, with aspirin and ivermectin and a few other things.
Joining me today is Dr. Hodkinson, here to discuss the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines, the possibility of infertility, and the very real concerns about the vaccine-induced spike proteins and what new scientific research is clearly suggesting about their risks to your health.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/dr-hodkinson-interview-covid-19-vaccines-infertility-spike-protein-dangers/
https://newtube.app/user/PhilStone/p01lQ7L
Great interview http://philosophers-stone.info/2021/06/11/brees-media-11th-june-2021-dr-roger-hodkinson/
June 2021… Roger says the masterminds game will be up soon …. not happening ..
Roger is like norm in that he cannot accept that this an extinction conspiracy…
You don’t mind maiming vaccine recipients – because the means justifies the end… the end game is extinction
You inject healthy kids — cuz everyone needs to do their part in creating Human Marek’s… what does it matter if their hearts are damaged… they are ALL going to die soon
Hey norm … what do you think of the BBC standing up for that soft core p orn star?
‘This untested vaccine should never have been released’
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=405
This is excellent
Life as an anti-vaxxer
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=404
They chose the vax hahaha
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10228760401341367&id=1427474244&sfnsn=wa
Is there any external content outside facebook? I don’t have it and I don’t want to. It doesn’t open for those who have no account. Thank you, and in case not thank you anyway.
Dunno .. I have FB because I once upon a time had to receive group messages related to ice hockey … my account is blank and is only used for messaging…
https://i0.wp.com/dailyexpose.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/image-140.png
OOOOOOeeeeee! norm more boosters now
wvK?
https://i0.wp.com/dailyexpose.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/image-139.png
oh my…..god
https://i0.wp.com/dailyexpose.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/image-153.png
Whilst you were distracted by a Christmas Party the UK Gov. released a report confirming the Fully Vaccinated account for 4 in every 5 Covid-19 Deaths in England since August
https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/12/11/report-shows-4-in-5-covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated/
“The Monkees require vaccine, negative covid test for fans at Greensburg show” said the headlines in September. But that precaution didn’t stop lead guitarist Mike Nesmith from dying the other day.
A message from the artists posted on the theater website prior to their November 1 show reads:
“Safety is always our number one priority. Out of an abundance of caution, we will require proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test within 48 hours prior to the event. An original vaccination card, a printed copy of a valid vaccination card or negative test will be accepted. Documentation may also be presented in digital form, such as a screenshot or photo, on a phone. For any vaccine documentation in reprinted form (printed copy, phone screenshot, etc.), the entire vaccination card must be visible, or it will not be accepted. This applies to all attendees, employees, and local crew.”
And now, despite that precaution, Mike Nesmith is a dead Monkee. With Mike joining Davey Jones and Peter Tork as late Monkees who no longer with us, the group’s status has been upgraded from threatened to endangered as only one of the original Monkees, Mickey Dolenz, is still monkeeying around.
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/the-monkees-require-vaccine-negative-covid-test-for-fans-at-greensburg-show/
It is very sad, but it could have been a whole lot worse.
At least Mike was fully vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/oblabeatles/status/1394091476116717574
The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle is on it’s last legs…oh well, it had a good run.
Arguably, 1955 – 2005
Almost a perfect function of the post-WW2 oil boom…
“This has been going on for 10 years. I’ve probably received literally hundreds of these images. The kind of stuff I get is close-up shots, or of them performing a s ex act.
“When I receive the images it makes you feel a bit dirty and you start thinking, ‘why me? Why have they sent them to me, is it something I’ve done’?”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-59615944
hahaha… what have you done???? MOREON
hahaha… a quick search … maybe this is why she is getting sleazy photos sent to her https://www.coedcherry.com/models/jess-davies
The BBC is a joke … WTF? Time to put humans into a deep hole
And norm still loves and trusts the BBC….
Excellent – MORE!!!
Original Antigenic Sin is a Real and Very Serious Reason to Stop Vaccinating Everyone
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/original-antigenic-sin-is-a-real
If someone is pro vax but will not explain why we are vaxxing healthy children that makes them … a Hyper MOREON
Eddy,
When you’re next on bitchute, look up Dr David Martin/Dr Sherri Tenpenny.
She interviewed him recently. He reckons that considerable time and money should be spent on forcing the makers of the mRNA jabs to label these products as “experimental gene therapies” not “vaccines”
The word “vaccine” disarms people…they tend to trust that it’s a good thing…”experimental gene therapy” is a harder sell and probably puts them in a different legal position, where injured folk can actually sue them.
Anyway, Dr Martin is a great communicator and explains it much better than I can.
I agree that changing the terminology would be a good first step, but big pharma, with their immense propaganda power, would fight us tooth and nail. OTOH, the growing awareness of the crisis–old time reporters retiring, more and more people dropping dead–won’t make our struggle any harder.
One big problem we have is the lack of an alternative narrative to that of the mainstream one, the globalist totalitarian network.
Well; who’s going to take care of the children of the CEP’d vaxxed parents?
What’s the point of whining about vaxxing children? It’s their parents choice.
Yes it is atrocious; but let’s be real.
From the article:
If someone refuses to answer the question – Why vaccinate healthy kids…
What does that make them?
comment hoarders eddy—comment hoarders
prepping for the day when you spin yourself so ‘fast’ in self adoration on your barstool, that you vanish up your own fundamental orifice.
then we will all be bereft in an eddyless commentless universe–with only the spinning barstool as a reminder of what used to be.
we will look at each other–and realisation will dawn, that our collective laughter ratio does not match the mirth of a single spin on the eddystool—which of course will never be occupied by another
it will be kept vacant in sacred memory–a blue plaque above it.
There will be much wailing, gnashing of teeth, putting on of sack cloth and ashes.
because there could never be another ass worthy of sitting on it.
We might even appoint a ‘stool-spinner’ to keep it in motion ready for your second coming. He will carry the apt title of ‘groom of the stool’ (google it)
Then in a thousand years, when OFW his long faded from memory, and humankind has surrendered itself to another, more worthy species, those creatures will still make pilgrimages to what by then be known as the ‘holy stool’—not knowing why, only that to invoke the power of the ‘holy stool’ they must stand around it and laugh themselves into a coma.
As long as they do that, their resources will be infinite, and their ‘economic system’ will go on ‘forever’.
Thus are civilisations reborn
WVK?
Ha! Ha! Waste all your breath on cov$& talk … soon it will be all economic depression talk…
https://youtu.be/72HFjrpJ9x0
The vibes seem to be more inclined to that stagflation option which is way worse..
Because in depression proper the poor could at least occasionally strike some good deals on food, relocate to cheaper housing etc. and that’s largely impossible during stagflation.
So the IMF, as lender of last resort, goes in tandem with stagflation?
Hello Sam,
George said at the end oft the video, the IMF will get more leverage from the emerging countries, if there economic activities decrease. I do not understand this connection!
Do you?
..lender of last resort..
Sorry mate, Scam-19 is a symptom and absolutely on topic.
The tide is turning: former pro-vax PhDs are now refusing the booster
Want to know what changed their minds?
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-tide-is-turning-former-pro-vax
Blah blah blah Covid blah vazx blah blah blah vacillating vaccine blah blah blah…..it’s over … find something else to obsess over
Now you know why most of your comments don’t publish … they are getting caught in the anti-MOREON filter
you are the reason Gail has to keep cleaning/replacing that eddy
WVK?
Is there a conspiracy?
No surprise because people are starting to figure out the vaccines don’t do sh*t, stopping Covid. In fact it helps you get it again, if you already have had it. People are also seeing the constant moving of the goal posts with moar and more booster shots that won’t work either. Add to the fact that people are also getting suspicious that the drug dealers who are pushing these vaccines have got the governments to ban safe alternatives like HCQ and Ivermectin.
Then of course word is getting out of all the injuries and deaths from these bullsh*t drugs. You would have to be the Three Amigos on OFW to believe these experimental drugs are totally safe.
Too little too late… once the poison is in you can’t suck it out … and it’s breeding mutants… the boosters are just a bit of icing
But it is not clear that those who are changing their mind are really admitting it.
You may not agree with what I have written below but read on.
Let me share with you why I say we are living in a simulation. There are plenty of personal experience on this matter and this morning is just an example of it.
A few family and friends sat down for small talk. Of course, it will turn to vaccination. What else do you expect? I was not vaxxed and immediately I was labelled anti-vaxx. I told them that I am healthy and strong and have not taken any medication except three times antibiotics due to surgery. Nothing else over the counter and why should I take any jab now and perhaps who knows I may end up dead or maimed. Well, one of the friends said that his son’s friend was in come since the first jab 5 months ago. Then it goes not to talking the vaccine and how they are planning to take the third one and was like nudging me along. My take
1. As compared to years ago, when you talk to people, there were emotions, constructive thoughts and ideas. There were people thinking and using their brain. You know because there were original thoughts and ideas. Right now, there are none. It is just regurgitating out. There are no emotions or thoughts. Having a friend of a son (i.e. must be young) in coma because of the jab – draws no gasps, emotions or reactions that we should have a look into this. None or whatsoever and the face was blank and calm. It is so robotic and so predictable.
2. It seems there is like a programming sequence or rules-based programming. If you mentioned something that is out of their understanding, it will just be a pause and then continued with something else (i.e. change of topics). If you talk about adverse effects, they nod and then switch topics. There is no functioning brain anymore.
3. I know some of them are not TV addicts and do not even watch TV but they all do the same thing again and again. Again very robotic and predictable.
4. This does not look like brainwashing to me. This is also not stupidity. I mentioned that last year, there was a tweet that UK allows first class passengers to skip quarantine with the reason “Their time is very important” and there was an uproar. I shared this to my friends and relatives. No reaction even why I said “perhaps the virus cannot enter the first class cabins”. They cannot see the irony. It is just “he brain just died”
5. The last 2 years, it gets worse and worse or more and more predictable and robotic. Remember 2 weeks to flatten the curve, everyone bought into it and it is get the boosters so that you are safe. It transcends culture, geography, religion, values, etc. Another thing. I find that they seem to be forgetful.
6. It seems to be that this is just like a game where only a few people are “aware” and “realize” and we have to navigate through this to the end of the game without getting jabbed.
Pentagon considering COVID booster mandate for all troops
Defense Department officials are reviewing whether to make a coronavirus booster shot mandatory for all active-duty and reserve troops, but have not come to any final decisions on the need yet, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Friday.
“There are discussions in the department about the efficacy of a booster mandatory policy as well,” he told reporters during a press conference. “Should there be an addition to the [department’s] mandatory vaccine requirement, we will clearly communicate that and be transparent about it.”
https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/12/10/pentagon-considering-covid-booster-mandate-for-all-troops/
Considering so many young people in military troops, it can be only for what Gail previously said about…
“When energy consumption per capita is growing rapidly, the economy adds items that were not previously considered necessary. Instead of a basic education for all being sufficient, advanced education (often paid for by the student) becomes necessary for many jobs.”
I disagree with the education point here. In my country governments have used education as a way to hide how bad the economy is doing, because those in formal education don’t count in unemployment statistics. My parents were able to leave school early and walk into any number of jobs. As those jobs dried up school became mandatory to Year 10 (out of 12), in the last decade the Year 10 certificate has been removed and school has become mandatory to age 17 as more jobs for young people have dried up. In every recession or unemployment crisis, including COVID, the government has given incentives for people to enrol in tertiary education. An as more people have tertiary education more jobs are demanding it because they can.
Nothing to see here
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGXruyJUUAMzuIe?format=jpg&name=900×900
Michael, would you be so kind to give us the link to obtain that from the original website?
Thank you, it is very interesting.
MASSIVE INCREASE IN MYOCARDITIS & PERICARDITIS AFTER DOSE 2?! NEW BOMBSHELL DATA FROM ONTARIO
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fyWFrNkHWZjN/
I notice that the Man Utd player Victor Lindelof had to leave the field this evening with what appeared to be a chest problem.
The manager reported at the post-match press conference that Lindelof would likely be fit to play the next game.
Probably nothing…
Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea said it was difficult to watch Victor Lindelof struggle to breathe in Saturday’s 1-0 Premier League win against Norwich City as it reminded him of Christian Eriksen and Sergio Aguero’s on-pitch health issues.
Defender Lindelof was substituted as a precaution shortly before Cristiano Ronaldo scored the winning penalty at Carrow Road, with United later saying that the signs were positive after the Sweden captain was checked by medical staff.
De Gea said the incident brought back memories of Denmark midfielder Eriksen suffering cardiac arrest on the pitch at the European Championship in June and Argentine Sergio Aguero feeling chest pain while playing for Barcelona in October.
“As soon as it was like difficult breathing, feeling strange the game doesn’t matter. First of all is life,” De Gea told Sky Sports. “We saw some players who are feeling a bit, I don’t know what was going on, but Victor was feeling his breathing.
“We saw already Eriksen, Aguero… so it’s sometimes a bit difficult to see your player acting like this, it was better to change. I hope he’s completely fine.”
I’m sure that a Sheffield Utd player and a Wigan player collapsed on the pitch for no apparent reason in the past month or so.
And yet, no msm is willing to publicly pose the question – “Are the jabs playing some part in this?”
Whereas, if Aguero or Eriksen has said something non-politically correct, the msm and the soccer talking heads would be all over it like a rash.
You have to laugh….or the cognitive dissonance would short circuit your brain!
French revolution moment from the young?
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Too busy trading used Idrones and watching Dumpclicks horror shows.
Besides even the bravest ones are protesting weekends only anyway.
Thank you Satoshi Omura. A great man who believed that nature offered mankind solutions. Thank you Sensei. I feel you in my heart.
This is science. Yes science is trustworthy. Sciopaganda is not.
A short film. “What is Ivermectin”
“Merck determined the safety profile was so safe that the drug could be administered without medical supervision in communities”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0al725UuDRQt/
Thanks jj – I could send that one to the most recalcitrant of my friends.
Israel PM Naftali Bennett:”…we finished developing an advanced MONITORING SYSTEM …EVERY Israeli citizen AT ANY TIME POINT WILL RECEIVE A SCORE FROM 1 TO 10 that represents a probability for him to be contagious…we connect your Covid test results with your GPS data…”
https://twitter.com/EliseiNicole/status/1469015411438071820
Let’s all imitate China. Sounds like a Bill Gates plan.
It sounds more like George Orwell’s 1984
Rod. It is Orwell’s 1984..nightmare
We also she the so called threat of war between Ukraine and Russia with the UDS on the sidelines…
I really cannot understand why Israel is becoming such a scaring State for its citizens.
It must be a matter of room available, density of inhabitants and energy per capita.
It is becoming a State like the one of a dystopic movie and most western Countries want to follow it.
Student, your comments are interesting. Thanks. Keep them coming.
Thank you houtskool, I try to give my contribute. All the best
There are many things that we don’t know. What vaccines are they getting? what is the long term plan? If I read history right, there were never many qualms about sacrificing lower level Jews among the elite shakers and movers.
With it population consisting of mostly Jews one would expect a certain hesitance toward injecting experimental “vaccines” Dr. Mengele “style”.
This world never ceases to amaze with its crazy.
🤔
They are temporarily in downswing that’s evident now, cue the recent state visit to Egypt, which strengthened relatively in the region lately.. This time the Egyptians are hopefully smart and bold enough (after many bitter lessons already) not to take any temporary tactical overtures from that tribe seriously at all.
“I really cannot understand why Israel is becoming such a scaring State for its citizens.”
First your neighbours, then your own …
Really?
The place is ran by the Synagogue of Satan….literally…..they are a criminal people doing what criminals do.
To keep everybody safe, the Israeli Government turned the country into a huge gated community complete with high walls and guard turrets.
This was psychologically comfortable for many Israelis, like the old ghettoes many European Jews used to reside in for centuries, only with all mod cons.
But on the pretext of fighting the virus, the Israeli Government has turned the gated community into something more like … Well, I won’t go there. You can use your imaginations. There are a lot of Israelis who are uncomfortable with this, but not enough of them at present to stop the trend.
Actually, Israel is a unique case as a society, but in the present dash toward authoritarianism and totalitarianism, the Israeli Government is far from alone. The light of freedom, tolerance, compassion, common sense and critical thinking is going out in places all over the world, including in some places that I would have thought would have been refuges for these things.
Lots of competition for who has the best ear tag for the cattle. If its your phone you just leave it at home. Its clear the instrumentation must be physically attached to, or inserted in, the body like a ear tag. The injected ear tags should be green the noninjected orange for easy identification and a petite size of say 50mmx50mm. One both ear to better hold the mask in place!
Blade Runner
Apparently, that is from a time, in the first half of last year, way before he became PM and is referring to a monitoring system for Ben Gurion Airport. https://twitter.com/ShredyJabarin/status/1469286248200163331
Israel approves GPS tracking for omicron variant carriers
Shin Bet tracking program limited to those who tested positive for the new coronavirus strain
Israel on Sunday approved the emergency use of GPS tracking for those who have tested positive for the omicron variant of Covid-19, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signed the regulation after the cabinet gave its approval for the Shin Bet (Israel security agency) to monitor carriers of the newly detected coronavirus strain that the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified as a “variant of concern.”
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/coronavirus/1638108483-israel-approves-gps-tracking-for-omicron-variant-carriers
https://i.ibb.co/L6FqzvR/la-linea-virus.jpg
“Corporate profits are not keeping up with inflation, a warning sign for the market… The S&P 500 now has a real earnings yield — the inflation-adjusted ratio of earnings per share to the stock price — of a negative 3.5 percent, and is now the lowest since 1947…
“The last time the S&P 500 had a negative real earnings yield, the Bank of America analysts said, was in 2000, before the tech bubble burst. It also happened twice during the stagflation of the 1970s and ’80s.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/business/corporate-profits-inflation.html
“Shipping Costs: Another Danger for Inflation-watchers to Navigate…
“Shipping rarely figures in economists’ inflation and GDP calculations, and companies tend to fret more about raw materials and labor costs than transportation. But that might be changing.”
https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/shipping-costs-another-danger-inflation-372717
A couple of items from the article:
The problems sound terrible for the world economy. More ships are needed, but these won’t be available before 2024.
1. Some of this backlog does not make sense
2. If we unload faster, make stuff faster, don’t we still have a problem getting the primary stuff out of the earth? Seems to be a lack of stuff all over.
Dennis L.
The monetary plane is crashing. The Wright brothers are not capable enough for compensation. That is what debt based fiat currencies do when they get access to the physical world.
https://youtu.be/Vuz44fwkEz0
Dennis,
you might enjoy this. It’s an interview of Michael Saylor, CEO of a company called Microstrategy. He became famous over the past year or so because he took 100s of millions of dollars of his company’s cash reserves and bought bitcoin. First public company to do so I think.
He’s an MIT grad and sure he’s a bitcoin evangelist, but this interview shows off his engineer’s mind as much as anything.
Interestingly, he mentions that his ancestors arrived on the shores of America in 1735. A wooden ship. The typical mortality rate on that particular voyage was 2-5% according to him.
It seems like we have had a too low corporate profits problem for a long time, especially when adjusted for inflation. This is why wages of most workers have tended to stay too low. This is why QE has been needed, even when the economy supposedly isn’t in recession.
We can blame the billionaires for that. They can always pay everyone more. We all know wages have not kept up with productivity for many years.
“The S&P 500 now has a real earnings yield — the inflation-adjusted ratio of earnings per share to the stock price — of a negative 3.5 percent, and is now the lowest since 1947…”
that’s the result of declining net (surplus) energy.
it is getting continually more difficult for capital to be invested profitably.
it all makes perfect sense within the understanding that the economy is based on energy.
the primary economy of net (surplus) energy is declining, and so the secondary economy of finance/money/debt MUST adjust to a lower level also, and this is mostly in a self-organizing manner, mostly regardless of gov/CB manipulations.
it’s not the end, but it’s part of the Endgame.
surely this cannot go on for more than another decade or two.
Good observations David….that is why I think it will adjust to a recession like economy……flipping from inflation to deflation can maybe keep this going and maybe the villagers won’t know what is happening….
And yet the average UK house price is up 12% from a year ago to £270,000. BoE base rate remains at 0.1%…
In a world of fewer profitable investments, shouldn’t interest rates be much higher?
The signals are all effed up…
“G-7 Finance Chiefs Plan to Discuss Inflation as Prices Soar.
The Group of Seven finance ministers will convene virtually on Monday to discuss the recent surge in inflation, according to people with knowledge of the matter.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-10/g-7-finance-ministers-plan-to-discuss-inflation-as-prices-soar
“Central Banks In Latin America’s Largest Economies Grapple With Raging Inflation…
“Once inflation takes off like this and gets entrenched in the economy, after all this massive stimulation, including interest rate repression, then it takes a long time – measured in years – and often a lot of hardship to get inflation back under control.”
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4474667-central-banks-in-latin-americas-largest-economies-grapple-with-raging-inflation
It is hard to see how inflation is fixable. The supply of goods and services is being inhibited by inadequate energy supply. Trying to fix the problem with more debt, given especially to the poor, leads to prices being bid up.
Something gonna break… omicron needs to pre-empt that
No unfortunately cov$ will be done by next month….sigh…. You will have to find something else to rant and rave about….. oh wait you are in New Zealand! You will be in jail by then…😂
No jab off to jail!!! Maybe you will miss everything!!!
“Bird Flu Is Raging, Adding to the Risks for Food Inflation.
“More than 40 countries across Europe, Asia and Africa have seen outbreaks since May, according to World Organisation for Animal Health data. It’s threatening to drive food prices, which are near record levels, even higher…”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-11/bird-flu-is-raging-adding-to-the-risks-for-food-inflation
“[US] Food is more expensive than it has been in decades… The hikes in food are part of a trend of increasing prices overall.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/11/business/grocery-restaurant-prices/index.html
Also large %of them addicted to eating out not at home, that’s obviously very much inflation supercharged – linked..
According to the article:
So far, this sounds like a non-US problem. I wonder why the vaccine manufacturers have not been as anxious to solve this problem as they were to solve the COVID problem.
The outbreak is bad in the UK. My poor chickens are consigned by law to their coop and most unhappy with it, accustomed as they are to free ranging.
Um…. Because there is no money in it…
hurrah they cheered!
And get ready for the Human Marek’s hahahaha… Let the Giant Cull Begin!!!
I really hope this Blasts Off in time for Christmas….
Another response thrown in the wrong place😑
it’s all meant to happen in the great circle of life.
“Global shortage of nurses set to grow as pandemic enters third year.
“The numbers of nurses around the world are falling further just as the Omicron coronavirus spreads, and there is a also an imbalance as Western countries step up recruitment of healthcare workers from African and other poorer countries.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/global-shortage-nurses-set-grow-pandemic-enters-third-year-group-2021-12-10/
“Kentucky declares state of emergency over nurse shortages.
“Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) issued the executive order during a news conference, stating that the state is running 12 to 20 percent short in its nursing staff. Given these figures, Kentucky is expected to need over 16,000 nurses by 2024.”
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/585300-kentucky-declares-state-of-emergency-over-nurse
Where I live in Florida, our local Hospital has posted job hiring signs where you can start work the same day. What do Hospitals expect when part of the requirement for employment is either submit to The Jab or get tested weekly? People are starting to get fed up with the fear mongering and have decided to leave the industry.
Most in the medical industry don’t do it for the money but rather for the love of saving lives.
Yes for Love, They do it from Heart , They do it for Life and because They are Compassionate Living Beings. They do it because it brings Joy When They Save Life and so then This is an Expression Of Their True Nature .They Remember Their Oaths and this brings Venerable Honour … They are Naturals
_/\_
As long as the KY screws over their physicians for public relations and lets culpable nurses and techs off for political and public relations, the people and nurses and all the doctors ( except the one Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure pre approved panel export in my specialty, the standard to which I should have been held and who thoroughly exonerated me, but whose opinion was discarded as the KBML had to go outside my specialty to get the opinion they wanted) can go F themselves. If you don’t think I am pissed, really pissed, 30 years later, with my career ruined, just ask me!
Did I mention when I went to the hospital with my mate they had a nurse at the entrance checking symptoms before being allowed to enter… She asked if I also needed treatment … I said oh no – I have not had the vaccine so I am fine thanks… I’m just driving the ambulance
I could sense that really pissed the woman off… but what could she say hahahahahahahahahaha
The so-called “healthcare” field has been growing too rapidly. It is really not affordable. Some of the problems end up getting taken out on the nurses, with long hours and pay that really doesn’t compensate for what is expected. Add to this all of the restrictions on visiting family, and the patients are no doubt a whole lot less happy. No wonder there aren’t enough nurses.
They get paid more to dress in se xy nurse outfits and perform on Only Fans….
Only the top, say, 25% of the advanced world and maybe top 10% of the not exactly advanced world will survive, and lots of zones will be abandoned.
Already, in Japan with a declining pop, large parts of Hokkaido and Kyushu have been abandoned. Some eccentric souls might live there for a while, but in time Hokkaido will return to nature, save the corridor connecting Sapporo to the mainland.
In western China, there was something called the Silk Road. The regimes who ruled it guaranteed the safety of the silk road, but if one strayed just a few kilometers away from it, complete wilderness awaited, which was still the case as the Chicoms found it during the Long March of 1934.
Tl, dr, those who like to live in exurbs will have to rely on whatever resource they can procure on their own. In other words, they will be on their own.
sounds good.
I’ll be dead and gone.
actually, soon enough we’ll all be dead and gone.
so this 25% and 10% nonnnnsense doesn’t matter at all.
hey, that’s cool, you know?
if you do the math, 100% will not survive. 😉
sometimes math is quite boring.
How are you gonna get rid of the bottom 75-90% of however you rank?
European fertility rates are in collapse anyway. Spain is down to 1.1 kid per woman in 2020, and the number of kids would halve each generation at that rate. Even that is inflated as 22% of births are to foreign mothers.
Australia is about to get a ‘mega’ boost to its population to keep the capitalist economy going and to service state debts and spending commitments. 30% of the AUS population was born abroad. Capitalist states are the greatest obstacle to population reduction.
> Politicians Are Worried that Aussies Are Not Having Enough Babies as Fertility Declines
2020 saw a 3.7% decline in births compared to 2019, with the fertility rate dropping 5% to an all-time low of 1.58 births per woman. This is a greater drop than we saw during even the worst years of the Great Depression almost a century ago. 2020 recorded the lowest number of births registered in the country since the Global Financial Crash of 2007, reversing rising birth rates that had peaked in 2018.
The lack of children born in the current time period in Australia is likely to remain low as economic, environmental, and social impacts continue to play a role. This is something that has worried politicians for a long time, as low birth rates mean fewer tax payers and fewer labourers to support an expanding economy.
Politicians appear to be planning for this decline in birth rates by massively increasing immigration to Australia. It has been reported that NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is looking to increase his state’s population by 3.3 million by 2061, with 60% of that increase coming from migration. However, there is also suggestion that population growth on that scale could be sought within the next five years as Perrottet seeks to deliver “mega projects on a mega scale,” including the vast increase of urban populations in the Greater Sydney region.
https://thelatch.com.au/covid-fertility-birth-rate/
The fertility rate in Spain has been in collapse from 2.8 kids per woman when Franco died in 1975 and abortion and contraception were made easily available. It has been below replacement level since 1980. It is at a point that the ageing population is dying much faster than it is replaced. Spain State relies heavily on new workers from abroad for the usual economic and fiscal reasons.
https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2021/12/09/61b1e2e3e4d4d81f098b45a6.html
> The birth rate fell by 5% and mortality grew by 18% in 2020
In this sense, 493,776 people died in Spain in 2020, an increase of 17.93% compared to 2019. Of the total deaths, 249,664 were men (+ 17.39%) and 244,112 women (+ 18.49%).
In turn, in 2020 there were 341,315 births, a fall of 5.35% compared to 2019, of which 166,473 were for girls (-4.92%) and 174,842 for boys (-5.76%).
Similarly, 264,128 of the births were carried out by mothers of Spanish nationality (-5.68%), while 77,187 came from foreign mothers (-4.20%).
On the other hand, a total of 90,670 marriages were registered in Spain in 2020, 45.55% less than a year earlier. In 71,925 of these links, both spouses are Spanish (-47.35%), in 15,707 one is a foreigner (-37.59%) and in 3,038 both are foreigners (-36%).
Thus, the crude birth rate in Spain stands at 7.19 births per thousand inhabitants, a decrease of 5.55% compared to 2019, with the short-term fertility indicator (the number of children per woman) being 1.19 (-4.03%) and the mean maternity age of 32.32 years (+ 0.24%).
Spain knew 87,481 weddings between spouses of different sex (-45.79%) and 3,189 links between people of the same sex (-37.97%).
Finally, the gross marriage rate was 1.91 marriages per thousand inhabitants, a drop of 45.65% compared to 2019.
“A nationwide shortage of snow plow drivers has led to concerns of dangerous roads across the US over the holidays and this winter season.
“To help address the shortage, many cities and states are offering massive incentives in an effort to get drivers on the road, including raising wages.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10297315/Shortage-snow-plow-drivers-means-potential-huge-winter-storm-delays-winter.html
“Union Says Staffing Shortages Within Federal Bureau Of Prisons Leading To More Violence…
“Tensions inside of federal prisons are high and corrections staff are growing more concerned over the lack of staffing.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2021/12/10/union-says-staffing-shortages-within-federal-bureau-of-prisons-leading-to-more-violence/?sh=38a4606137a0
“‘A potential crisis’: Area police chiefs fight officer shortages [New Hampshire].
“Local police chiefs say their departments are being stretched dangerously close to a breaking point due to staffing shortages, overworked employees, and the loss of experienced officers to retirement or competitive job offers.”
https://www.eagletimes.com/news/a-potential-crisis-area-police-chiefs-fight-officer-shortages/article_420c16f1-9b55-5c20-9db5-56c6a1c53d1b.html
“[New Zealand’s] farming sector fears someone may die because a shortage of workers has led to a rise in accidents with heavy machinery.
“With the border still closed, contractors are working longer hours and using less experienced drivers to try and plug the gaps.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/farmers-fear-someone-will-die-as-shortage-of-experienced-overseas-workers-leads-to-rise-in-accidents.html
Hopefully someone cracks Jizzlane Maxwell with a shovel
She’s untouchable – most likely daddy left her “insurance” or she prepared similar juicy dossiers on certain people during her own “career”.. And even if not she attended schools and had social life with the top elite as kid and youngster, it’s very likely she won’t be fed to the wolfs.. as sinners-commoners..
Lack of workers sounds like a theme everywhere. Pay not good enough. Too much continuing fear of COVID. Too much expected of them. Not enough that can really be purchased with the wages (new vehicles, overseas trips, new appliances).
“The US military has a plan to make food from thin air. No really… what if you could take [the] concept of making food not from animals or even plants, but microbes and use it to decentralise food production itself?
“A gizmo that makes food from pretty much nothing is straight out of Star Trek. But in the aftermath of a pandemic that has shown us just how vulnerable our food systems and global supply chains are, it’s an idea whose time may have come…
“Three companies now control 70 per cent of agrochemicals. Ninety per cent of global grain is controlled by four multinational companies. Nine food companies control what is bought and sold in retail outlets.
“What’s more, 60 per cent of our food supply comes from just three crops — corn, wheat and rice — the production of which is controlled by a handful of Big Ag and chemical companies. And agriculture has become incredibly efficient: US farmers have nearly tripled their per acre production over the past 70 years.”
https://www.ft.com/content/d06bfccb-e43b-4840-b4b4-ce95c2c1ecb4
“The other supply chain crisis: American farmers can’t ship food abroad because foreign shippers won’t take it.
“U.S. farmers struggle to ship product abroad, causing ‘destruction of millions of dollars in value’.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/supply-chain-crisis-american-agriculture-exports-house
Thanks for being here Harry Mc and making these contributions _/\_
You are welcome, Bobby!
…And You Give Answer before I write 🙂 so again _/\_
Big ag has become efficient, but it has tended to strip the nutrients and fibre out of the food. People are overweight and unhappy. Something has gone dramatically wrong, especially in the US.
I am having a hard time figuring out how “food from thin air” will fix these problems.
I fear it is wishful thinking on a par with our dreams of space colonisation and limitless, free energy, Gail.
Wishful thinking is all that some have left and tiurn to wehen the first thoughts of IC collapse trickles inoto thrir subconcious and concius mind. I also apreciate Harrys contribution.
Hi Gail. It is an interesting subject
We kind of have been taking food from thin air for a long time.
We literally mine the sky already…
Wonder, is it in- fact ionised nitrogen or oxygen that makes Earths sky blue?
https://byjus.com/chemistry/haber-process/
With respect to our food supply: have we reached diminishing returns there also?
Plenty of production but how nutritious is it?
I’d guess that chronic malnutrition underpins part of our physical and psychological dysfunction in Western countries,
Vitamin D, B12. Iodine…probably many more….
Yes that’s root of many today’s problems perhaps even as someone suggested correlated with dropping IQ since 19th century..
food is just another energy-form
when it costs too much–the species that depends on it starves
MKV?
calm down eddy
finger-frenzy is making you get the caps mixed up
i know joined up writing is a problem–but i thought you’d got the hang of caps
Look at norm … the imbecile … stumbling about like a drunken clown
MKV norm… MKV
Ok thanks student you are right.
😑
I think this was a reply to this comment: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/12/03/is-it-possible-that-the-world-is-approaching-end-times/comment-page-10/#comment-332863
Seems like a few of yours have ended up out of thread recently.
797,121 as of today–
800,000 easy by Xmas—
1918 is getting far in the rear for totals.
There are a lot more people alive today than in 1918.
Yep—
But this has just started.
Already more deaths from Covid than AIDS in US.
Of course, AIDS has been 35+ years
Covid less than 2
Perhaps they could think about taking out the inexpensive drugs that work, so it doesn’t kill so many.
… with covid ..not from covid…
Just about the only deaths from AIDS in Japan in the 1980s were among the hemophiliac community who took injections of factor VII manufactured from blood products harvested from junkies and street people in the US. Eventually several hundred of these people went on to develop AIDS.
It’s the same old story. They believed their doctors, Big Pharma, and Big Government , and trusted these entities to protect them.
Hint: Getting injected with poisons that wear down the immune system’s ability to function will tend to bring on the symptoms of AIDS time.
By Fred Hiatt
June 23, 1988
TOKYO — He is a round-faced, soft-spoken man of 39, a Japanese real estate manager who was infected by the AIDS virus imported from the United States.
Like most AIDS carriers in Japan, he is a hemophiliac who was infected by the blood products he needs to keep him alive. And like most carriers here, he is the victim of tainted U.S. blood that Japan continued to import despite warnings it might be contaminated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) virus.
Now the man, who has told only his wife and parents about his condition, waits for the symptoms of AIDS to appear and quietly indicts his personal list of villains: the doctors who told him he had nothing to fear from a “foreign disease,” the government that failed to protect him, the U.S. and Japanese companies that continued selling contaminated blood products here after they were known to be unsafe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/06/23/tainted-us-blood-blamed-for-aids-spread-in-japan/9e77b478-1183-46e1-a4d0-a4ee3ec7a87d/
according to this
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Supplemental_DeadliestPandemics-Infographic-11082021.jpg
Covid would require an additional 50X as many people dying to be comparable to Spanish flu on a mortality rate basis
Doesn’t touch AIDs either – Covid require 11x to match percentage listed
and that is if you can believe the fake totals states & cdc been putting out
Hark… a MOREON…
In the US, tub’o’lardosis is rampant.
We’re averaging one COVID-19 death a day this month in Japan.
That’s not a death count—it’s statistical noise.
And the official total is now 1,387 post-inoculation deaths.
Multiply that number by between x10 and x100 for a realistic death count and the clot shots don’t look like such a good idea.
I find it beyond ironic that Neil is plugging injections these days!
94% deaths are where convid is merely a co-morbidity.
We have a gunshot victim listed as convid death here in NZ because a later autopsy showed GUNSHOT VICTIM had the flu.
.06 x 800,000 is under 50k.
Idunno….its simple math simple simon.
But corrupt science and corrupt business and corrupt govt seem to be your happy place.
I listened again to my recording of my discussion with a doctor a couple of weeks ago … when I told her the average age of those dying from covid was 82… she appeared to be unaware of that…
She also refused to give my mate an exemption recommendation — it all depends where this situation goes… if we got Face Ripping then we go face ripping … you need to start somewhere
Why vaccinate children?
I can’t have Duncan stealing my replies
In my 70’s, I am a bit childlike—-
Might move back to Mexico, or Marin.
That’s a difficult question, but a fair one?
The fact that you ask it proves that you are not nearly as nihilistic, amoral or misanthropic as you pretend to be. Fostering other people’s kids is also a dead giveaway.
The contrast between you and the people who are proposing, defending or electing not to protest or condemn injecting kids with the poison clot shots. Them I will not forgive or forget.
Now, for my answer.
The only basis of a civilized society is women and children first, and pregnant women in particular. Our societies are no longer worth of the name. By injecting children and making the bulk of the population complicit in this either through their active or passive support of through their silence, the perpetrators of the Covid scheme have ensured that once the full damage becomes apparent, it will be proven even to Westerners that their societies are rotten to the core and not worth saving. When this happens, these societies will collapse into their own footprints at close to free fall speed.
So I think injecting children is a major plank in the psychological war being waged against Western populations.
A society who uses children as humans shields is rotten to the core and deserves to die.
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thanks – now maybe norm can give us his explanation.
It is important to differentiate between me – the one who sponsors the kids is me… Fast Eddy has nothing to do with that.. Fast Eddy is the one who worked out the CEP and celebrates the end of humans…. there is some overlap in my views and FE’s views… but remember – Fast Eddy is not a person – HE is not me HE is …. an energy flow… an Entity…
I do not know where Fast Eddy came from — HE is an evolving force… HE is not apparition speaking to me from time to time rather HE resides in my mind… it’s like HE is a resident all knowing Entity that co-exists in my mind …
You know how they say people use only a small part of their mind? That’s the part I use — FE has the rest….
Fast Eddy is convinced after Bronski Beat that HE is some sort of Messiah… sent to provide salvation to the humans (MOREONS excluded)… What do I think about that? Hard to say… HE is a product of OFW so maybe Gail knows what is going on? That said — that Bronski Beat incident + the Les Mills encounter are a bit creepy…
Throw in the fact that another force is involved in a plan destroy humans…. something we’ve never experienced in the history of the world … so I rule nothing out…
Perhaps Fast Eddy is an emissary from the Higher Power … which would mean that Fast Eddy is involved in the extermination of the MOREONS and the cleansing of the species…
That is a distinct possibility … we know HE despises MOREONS….
I have no way of knowing … there is a Chinese wall between HIS part of my mind and the tiny bit that I have control of.
I am no more aware of what HE is or what HIS intentions are than those of you on OFW.
We just have to wait and see.
But I do think it is not such a bad idea to once in a while offer a Hail Fast … Fast for Emperor … to get on HIS good side… just in case.
norm — you mind kowtow from time to time and beg forgiveness.. Fast Eddy may offer you an exemption
i can write reasonable fiction
I would be embarrased to write such tosh
especially in caps
i forgot about your constant belittling of the efforts of paralympians earlier this year eddy
here’s someone else (a lesser being than your self-exalted self of course) you can smear
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59599250?s=03